Watch Sacha Baron Cohen use his "pedophile detector" on Roy Moore

In the lead up to Showtime’s Who Is America?, failed Senate candidate (and alleged pedophile) Roy Moore joined a slew of other right-wing political figures in admitting that they’d been duped by Sacha Baron Cohen’s series. Moore, for example, threatened Showtime with legal action if they aired a “defamatory attack” on…

YouTuber who says comedy shouldn't address racism, sexism booed off stage at Just For Laughs

Are YouTubers really the future of comedy? Not Darren Knight, a YouTuber and self-proclaimed “fastest rising comedian in American history” who blends the down-home condescension of Jeff Foxworthy and the kitschy misogyny of Tyler Perry’s Madea in a character he calls Southern Momma. Here’s his most recent video:

The owners of the real-life Simpsons house are "vigilant about keeping the doors locked"

It’s one thing to build a real-life Simpsons house as a publicity gimmick. It’s another to figure out what to actually do with it afterwards. Mental Floss published a fantastically detailed history all about the infamous “real-life Simpsons house,” a perfect replica of 742 Evergreen Terrace that was built for a 1997…

John Oliver takes on sexual harassment with the help of all-time expert Anita Hill

John Oliver returned from a mini-hiatus with an extra-long Last Week Tonight on Sunday. After an abbreviated roundup of several weeks’ backlog of Donald Trump’s toilet tweets, the host launched into his main story about workplace sexual harassment, touched off by the fact that CBS President Les Moonves was just outed…

Tony Danza and Josh Groban are the new odd couple in this trailer for Netflix's Good Cop

What is it with Brooklyn and funny cops? We’ve already got Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and now Netflix is getting into the game with The Good Cop, a new series starring Tony Danza and Josh Groban that comes from Monk creator Andy Breckman. The show stars Groban as the eponymous cop that is good, with Danza playing his father,…

Netflix picks up 4 new shows, including drama from Octavia Spencer and LeBron James

Netflix has shared some new premiere dates and new trailers today, and now it has also announced four new original shows. The first is Madam C.J. Walker, which counts LeBron James and Octavia Spencer among its executive producers and will star Spencer as the eponymous C.J. Walker. Based on A’Lelia Bundles’ book On Her…

Today's Trailer Happy Hour goes back to Ozark, Switzerland, and Dracula's castle

Nothing makes a Sunday afternoon go down smoother than some trailers, so we’ve compiled a delightful little mixture of videos promoting upcoming movies and TV shows that you can now feel free to casually sip out on your patio or while watching the big sports game from your comfy chair. Today we’ve got teasers for Ozark…

Netflix announces premiere dates for Maniac and The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

It’s Netflix day at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, which the streamer kicked off with a choir performance and lots of spandex. Your A.V. Club correspondents are shivering with anticipation over the prospect of a third season of GLOW (which has, bafflingly enough, not yet been ordered), as well…

Here's what Michael B. Jordan has to say about a Thanos-Killmonger fight

Michael B. Jordan’s time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is probably over, barring some flashback scenes in the Black Panther sequel or a weird side effect of the snap heard ’round existence at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. But his raw and powerful performance as Erik Killmonger (a.k.a N’Jadaka) earned him lots…

Seth Rogen is now the voice of Vancouver's transit system

It’s always a little terrifying when something from Twitter makes its way into the real world, but the city of Vancouver has proven that not all social media interactions result in negativity—though 99 percent of them still do. After Vancouver’s TransLink transit network decided to pull an advertising campaign with…

Matthew Weiner's new series The Romanoffs gets a name-dropping teaser and an October premiere

Buzz has been steadily building up for more than a year now for The Romanoffs, the first new TV project from Emmy-drenched writer Matthew Weiner since his beloved Mad Men went off the air. Now, Amazon has finally revealed a premiere date for the new show—reportedly an anthology series about a variety of oddballs whose…

Bob Odenkirk celebrates Better Call Saul's fifth-season renewal by showing the TCA press corps his butt

Given that it remains the most consistently and critically beloved series on the network’s roster, it’s not entirely shocking to learn that Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul has now been granted a fifth-season renewal order, roughly a week before its fourth was set to premiere. Not only does the series…

The Russo brothers are plotting some sort of mysterious, hyper-ambitious "global television franchise"

Fresh off the finger-snapping fun of Avengers: Infinity War—and even as they’re deep into post-production work on the still-untitled Avengers 4—brothers Joe and Anthony Russo are revving up their next big project. Amazon announced today that it was teaming up with the pair—who got their start in TV, back before they…

Amazon orders new shows from Lena Waithe, Nicole Kidman, and Greg Daniels

Amazon decided to dump a big rush delivery of new TV news on our doorsteps today, taking advantage of its day in the spotlight at the TCA summer press tour to roll out all sorts of new info—some expected, some not—about its upcoming and ambitious slate of shows. We already talked a bit about the company’s continuing…

Amazon threatens centuries of geek tradition by hiring Star Trek writers to develop its Lord Of The Rings show

Threatening to recklessly cross the streams of the various branches of geekdom—itself a dangerous reference to yet another beloved nerd property—Amazon announced today that it was hiring JD Payne and Patrick McKay to head up development on its long-anticipated Lord Of The Rings TV show. Payne and McKay are relative…